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<p>The Free Software Foundation, the organization behind the GNU project,
has been unifying the build procedure for its tools for some time.
Thanks to its tools &lsquo;<samp>autoconf</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>automake</samp>&rsquo;, most packages
now respond well to these simple steps, with no other intervention
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make
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<p>Hopefully, these tools can evolve to be aware of Stow-managed packages,
such that providing an option to &lsquo;<samp>configure</samp>&rsquo; can allow &lsquo;<samp>make</samp>&rsquo;
and &lsquo;<samp>make install</samp>&rsquo; steps to work correctly without needing to
&ldquo;fool&rdquo; the build process.
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